**** Starfield ****

Yeah Im hoping Shattered Space has a Outer Worlds style to it (detailed crafted core World to explore) not just random generated land mass.

It's paid dlc

Great start! XD

So I checked and I definitely bought the premium edition, I found the receipt from Steam in my emails. But when I look at Starfield it doesn’t appear that I have the dlc at all and need to buy it even though it was supposed to be included in the premium edition.

Anyone else have this issue? I might never play the dlc but if I’ve paid for it I want to have the option at least.

Thank you! I’m deep into my first play through of Witcher 3 now so I’m not going to be playing Starfield but I’ll give that a go anyway.

Yeah booted up the game and tried to level up a bit as only level 27 but levelling up is so slow. Saw reviews of the DLC and just thought I'd move onto something else. Had been playing Star Wars Outlaws before it and that felt more enjoyable, not saying it's perfect either. Even after the big update a few months, could never get into Starfield

Loaded it up the other day to finish the main story before doing the dlc, I got to a mission which had me bouncing back and forth between 2 places 3 or 4 times. I haven't gone back since.

I didn't realise I had spent close to 100 hours on it when it came out but that must have been on the faction stories because the main story seems like pure tosh.

Re leveling, it's slow as f***, too slow to open up the skill tree with the amount of different skills

I actually came across a fun new quest involving Clones. Was leveling up before the DLC and came across the planet. Never seen that mission at all. Was good fun

A few hours into Shattered Space and I'm enjoying it. It's nothing ground breaking and certainly won't change your mind on the game but good fun if you enjoy the base game. One thing is for sure - I'm very happy they added the REV-8 a while back. Makes getting between things on this planet far more enjoyable

Well that's a new one: I was in Akila city, at night, traipsing between the four stores where you can offload all those guns, suits, helmets, and harvested organs, when I heard that really quite bad quality crowd screaming and panicking sound, and several tertiary NPCs starting running past.

I was between the Trade Authority and Loredo Firearms and, not that the NPC's run in a consistent and intelligent direction, but there did seem to be a sense that the main square might have been where the source of the trouble was. I boost packed up onto the roofs to have a better view and headed for the area. At first I couldn't see anything, but then noticed an Ashta at the foot of those steps on the path leading to the bookstore.

Killed it and then walked the walls to check on the gates to see if someone had been stupid enough to leave one open. Sure enough, one of them was wide open with one of those shotgun toting, 'don't go outside the walls at night because of the Ashta', guards standing next to it. I closed it and continued to wander the city a bit.

I think in total I found at least 4 dead guards. Now I wish I had been a bit more thorough, because I think I might have missed finding the body of Shephard, the proprietor of the General store on the main square, because he's gone from the game and Akila city, 'heart of the Freestar collective' now only has 3 usable stores in it, unless you are into booze and books.

I refuse to buy shattered space because they never bothered to fix a lot of bugs in the base game. If you have a ship with those shipping container style holds, they still twist and get all skewed.

I got a sense of how unpopular and lose-interest-early this game really is, the other night, when I became Starborn and got a gong for a rare achievement that only 9.7% players manage to achieve.

The lack of logic in this game grates. Earth's atmosphere sputtered off and they shipped all 8-9 billion of it's population to the stars over 50 years, so you would think a good proportion of those would have ended up in the Freestar collective. So Akila is the capital city of a population in the billions. Akila has been around for well over a century, it has this problem with the destitute unemployed in the Stetch - an available labour force - and in all that time they haven't managed to pave the streets?

The writing is dire.